Wabash Boxcar Stenciled for NJI&I Subsidiary-Bement IL-August 28 1985
Parent Wabash Railroad used subsidiary NJI&I reporting marks for apparent accounting reasons like on this boxcar. Bement was the junction of two Wabash lines in Downstate Illinois.
The New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad (NJI&I) was originally created by the Singer sewing machine company and named after states in which it had factories. It is also my favorite shortline railroad that no longer exists.
The NJI&I was based in South Bend and gave Singer access to yet another railroad, the Wabash Railroad some ten miles south of the city. Eventually the Wabash acquired the NJI&I which served a number of South Bend industries including Studebaker. The NJI&I came under control of the Norfolk & Western with its Wabash purchase and disappeared by the time Norfolk Southern took over.
In the mid-2000s NS rationalized and realigned much of its inherited collection of former NYC, NJI&I, and Indiana Northern industrial trackage on South Bend's southwest side. Bits and pieces of the NJI&I are still in use today to service five NS customers in the city.
Scan of a M. E. Vaughan duplicate slide in my collection.
Wabash Boxcar Stenciled for NJI&I Subsidiary-Bement IL-August 28 1985
Parent Wabash Railroad used subsidiary NJI&I reporting marks for apparent accounting reasons like on this boxcar. Bement was the junction of two Wabash lines in Downstate Illinois.
The New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad (NJI&I) was originally created by the Singer sewing machine company and named after states in which it had factories. It is also my favorite shortline railroad that no longer exists.
The NJI&I was based in South Bend and gave Singer access to yet another railroad, the Wabash Railroad some ten miles south of the city. Eventually the Wabash acquired the NJI&I which served a number of South Bend industries including Studebaker. The NJI&I came under control of the Norfolk & Western with its Wabash purchase and disappeared by the time Norfolk Southern took over.
In the mid-2000s NS rationalized and realigned much of its inherited collection of former NYC, NJI&I, and Indiana Northern industrial trackage on South Bend's southwest side. Bits and pieces of the NJI&I are still in use today to service five NS customers in the city.
Scan of a M. E. Vaughan duplicate slide in my collection.